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[Stumpfarmer]

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Depending on the quality of the acreage you can have 25 to 35 pig per acre, so 50 on 5 should be fine.

She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

 

[SadieSue]

If I counted correctly my mid-May chicks are just over 15 weeks old now. I've got 4 pullets out of the 6 chicks I hatched. Orpington/Sussex roo was re-homed last week and my precious Salmon Faverolles cockerel that I LOVED met a bad end one day. I've never talked about it because it was much too upsetting.

My funny little Golden Cuckoo Marans/Light Sussex girl is one of the sweetest girls. She was my first hatched chick and has always been special. She is an odd looking girl with her heavily feathered legs and small body but she is always the first chick to seek my attention and is by far the friendliest. She has been the most tolerant of being touched or held. Now I'm noticing her comb is getting very red already and when I pet her she stoops into a squat. It sounds like she's getting ready to lay soon, right? I'm just a little surprised because I think she's a bit young. What is the earliest you have ever had a hen start laying?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Depending on the quality of the acreage you can have 25 to 35 pig per acre, so 50 on 5 should be fine.

She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

Well maybe they are like mine. My pigs do very little damage and I could probably put 100 to the acre with no problem.

 

[blueducklings]

CL that is a very beautiful fish!!

and even with my chicken phobias...you got pretty "beaked" birds

Congrats on all those prizes and your HUGE harvest is making me green with envy...
Nope, no beans yet and I planted some beets last week.

To the bob cat, I hope he runs away soon. Run Forest....RUN!!

T-Hi, we need to meet up girl. I just got to show you my purdy birds...before they geet eaten/ sold.
Going to Craigslist them this wek. To many boys.

To everybody that needs a hug...

So who is going to the Puyallup Fair?
Enter my duck and get 3 tickets?????? Hmmm. Will someone buy the bird after that? Do birds sell at fairs??

I just want to sell them.
They are beautiful SQs, but I can't keep so many boys. I want to keep my buff runner drake, my Khaki runner drake and my trout runner drake too and I got 3 silver/splash ones too.
All I wanted was a silver girl, and I got 3 boys. Sigh...

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Depending on the quality of the acreage you can have 25 to 35 pig per acre, so 50 on 5 should be fine.

She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

So you are saying your soil suxs. What is the area ratio per acre for goats, cattle and pigs. Here I can have 15 goats per acre. She pulled it out of her

.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

Quote:
She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

Well maybe they are like mine. My pigs do very little damage and I could probably put 100 to the acre with no problem.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/23104_garden_hog_001.jpg

and it would not stink.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well maybe they are like mine. My pigs do very little damage and I could probably put 100 to the acre with no problem.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/23104_garden_hog_001.jpg

and it would not stink.

Yes but ya gotta roast em a LOOOOOONG time before they become edible !

 

[SadieSue]

What a luxury it is to post as much as I want this morning. I don't have to be at the shop today and I don't need to be at the theater until 6 PM tonight.
However KMHunter, I want to tell you how sorry I am to hear about your young girl dying in your arms. That is heartbreaking.

And Wa4Hmom - I saw your post on FB before I read on here about Kelby. Very sad.

I know how those Goldens take up a special place in your heart. I am fond of most dogs I meet, but my Goldens have always been the most intuitive and genuinely caring dogs of all I've been fortunate enough to know.

CL - awesome job at the fair with your entries! Do you ever enter your art at the Puyallup fair? I'd love to see some of your artwork close up - I'm sure my laptop monitor isn't doing it justice!

Ogress, your llama was a beautiful boy. I'm sure that was a tough loss.

T-hi - it's so nice to have you posting regularly again! We're going to have to have another visit one of these days soon!

CGG - I always enjoy hearing from you. Even when you're griping about something. Is that wrong? Of course, I enjoy your happy posts more!

Looking forward to getting together with you again sometime.

CR - I hope your sunburn clears without doing too much damage. Gosh darn you're going to have to take better care of yourself! Glad you made a little $$ this weekend.

RFF - LOVED the latest photos of Audrey! It seems like yesterday when I was taking hundreds of photos of my just weeks old baby girl, and now she's in college. Amazing how quickly they grow, so keep that camera handy at all times! She's a beautiful baby.
I was sorry to hear about the little schoolhouse and the damage done to your property.

And all the rest - I do love spending time reading everyone's news, gripes, celebration posts, etc. Sometimes I can only read without responding but I try my best to keep up. This thread is certainly a guilty pleasure!

Speaking of which - guess I should get some work done around here now before I head back to the theater for another dress rehearsal tonight. DH has been incredibly patient about cluttered kitchens and no cooked meals lately. He's cool that way - I'll give him that. When I'm involved in a show he doesn't see me much for nearly 2 1/2 months.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Quote:
She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

Well maybe they are like mine. My pigs do very little damage and I could probably put 100 to the acre with no problem.



https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/23104_garden_hog_001.jpg

Definitely the only pig I'd have on the place.

The thing was, I was really looking forward to the interview (on KUOW: I am commerical-averse) that they's been flacking for a week or so, of "people actually involved in food-animal production in the Puget Sound region" and they got the usual suspects, almost all people in their first five or ten years of farming who have yet to come up against the natural consequences of not taking the PNW soils and climate into effect raising pigs, especially. But the interview was full of sheer stupid, like the "chickenfeed kills cattle" one, which" yeah, if you had a cow or steer walk into the barn and eat two or three sacks of 16% grower, then yeah: founder, toxic rumen, possible death. Same with Beefies or Dairy 16, though, cattle are not meant to eat all the grain they can hold, most of them won't even try, but the few even-stupider-than-average ones in any herd are why one doesn't feed free-choice grain and why grain storage needs to be secure.

Which, hey, CR, in your wanderings around the world of scrap iron, do you know where I could get one of the old-style 55 gallon grease drums with the locking lid? I had a long think at 4am today about why Dad never had rats (both my parents abhored rats, and I never saw one dead or alive anywhere except the garbage dump until I moved to Seattle next door to a blackberry-and-cherry tree covered vacant lot) and realized he never stored grain in any container that didn't have a tight fitting metal lid- the one's with a band and lever closing. Modern galvanized cans are flimsy, the lids pop when bumped or with a big drop in barometric pressure.

 

[hallerlake]

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She's selling them as pasture raised, so that's way over carrying capacity, especially anywhere in the PNW where glacial soils, summer drought, and low soil temperatures are hard on sod formation and pasture recovery time (full disclosure: I live on a farm which pastures cattle and feeds pigs hay for just that reason: 50 pigs can destroy ten acres of pasture in a month here).

The more important question is where she got her information about chicken feed killing cattle.

So you are saying your soil suxs. What is the area ratio per acre for goats, cattle and pigs. Here I can have 15 goats per acre. She pulled it out of her

.

There are river valleys with good soil, but for the most part we're talking glacial dirt.